Ability to check if subtasks are complete.

tismey says:

It'd be really useful for the hasSubtasks search property to be able to distinguish between Complete and Incomplete tasks. For example:

In my GTD setup, I use tasks/subtasks as Project/Next Actions. To help with my weekly review is like to have a way of finding anything tagged as a project that doesn't have an associated action. I thought this would be as simple as "tag:project AND hasSubtasks:false", but this doesn't capture projects where all the subtasks are completed.

Being able to tell if a task has Incomplete subtasks seems like a sensible addition to the syntax, to me.

Posted at 1:34pm on April 30, 2016

muckpond says:

PLEASE! A MILLION TIMES YES!

This was also brought up in a (now closed) thread: https://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/20576/

Please give us a way to filter/search based on tasks that are complete/incomplete.

In pseudocode, I need a way to say "Find all tasks with no incomplete subtasks"

This is, of course, a GTD kind of thing.

Thanks!

Posted 2 years ago

tismey says:

This functionaliity must exist behind the scenes, because all tasks with subtasks have a label that shows the number of _incomplete_ subtasks associated with it.

Posted 2 years ago

muckpond says:

I don't suppose there's been any. Overeat on this?

Posted 2 years ago

muckpond says:

.... Uh, "any movement" that should say.

Posted 2 years ago

nickmcg says:

Good suggestion

Posted 1 year ago

cavanaughmm says:

I find subtasks during my weekly review that are not complete using a SmartList:

status:incomplete AND hasSubtask=false AND (listContains:..PRJ OR tag:..prj)

I start all main projects with the phrase "..PRJ" so that it's easy to identify them. Right now I am also adding the tag "..prj" to see whether the "list" method or tagging works better for identifying/managing projects (tasks) and subtasks.

Unless the subtask has a subtask, this seems to find them for me. Pretty new to RTM so maybe I'm missing something?

Posted 1 year ago

davidfarquhar says:

I think the proposal is a great idea and would second this. Having a filter called "HasIncompleteSubtasks" would be the ultimate idea.

@cavanaughmm - your idea works well, but it means adding another list here. One of the nice things about the proposal is it makes your main work list much more dynamic, and means you can apply subtasks to any task really quickly without having to mark it as a project.

So if I have a smart list containing tasks a,b,c and I suddenly decide that its easier to break task b down into b1,b2,b3 to make it easier to complete, I'd like to just go into task b and add those subtasks.

If I've set the smart list to ignore parent tasks then instantly my list now contains a,b1,b2,b3,c. Great, now I have a much simpler view of my life, I can tick off each task as I do it, works really well. But when b1,b2,b3 are all done I won't see b in the list. I have to go to a separate list containing parents/projects to check it.

I'd much prefer it if the smartlist ignored parents with incomplete subtasks, then the moment b1,b2 & b3 are complete you would see a,b,c again, and be able to tick off b to say I've done that. You're working within a single list all the time which is much easier to do

Posted 1 year ago

drooith says:

Not having to be able to distinguish situation where tasks has any uncompleted subtasks is a problem for me too. E.g. I wanted to make a simple query to display all uncompleted tasks without subtasks (as part of my workflow). Seems to be a simple like logical condition as:

(isSubtask:false AND hasSubtasks:false) OR (isSubtask:true AND hasSubtasks:false)

but if tasks has any completed subtasks it won't show in above result set. Strange to see lack of such query parameter.

Posted 8 months ago

rtfletch says:

I'd love to have this as well. I mark projects with a "project" tag and then I have a smart filter to find projects without subtasks to make sure everything has a next action, but because it includes completed it's harder to filter for projects that need sub-tasks or can be marked completed. I don't like it, but the only option I can think of is to delete the completed tasks.

Posted 7 months ago

daniel.walters says:

Yes, I would love this as well. Currently it requires two samrt lists: one to weed out any completed subtasks (next actions) of projects so they can be deleted, then another to see if any projects have no next actions.